University of Akron's research now spans 55 countries

Research at University of Akron is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 608 institutions in 55 countries, and international collaborators appear on 25% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Kent State University in United States, at 69 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 3,643 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

The Research Collaboration Index, the first global account of how universities actually collaborate, publishes its first full edition on Tuesday 15 September at 09:00 UK.

Every figure derives from the open global research record and is checkable at source.